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Berkeley, CA, United States
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Comic Books: Pre-Code Horror & Other Comics
Greetings, gang, and welcome to PBA?s fifth comic book sale. Fright fans will be pleased to see that once again our focus is on the seedy underbelly of the comics world: the ?terrifying, shocking, sensational, appalling, forbidden? but simply wonderful? pre-Code horror comic books of the 1950s. As usual, we?ve tried to delve beneath the surface of this fascinating category with our signature blend of research and commentary. Despite the surge in interest in pre-Code horror, we feel that these books have yet to receive their proper due ? they?ve become very attractive as investment collectibles, to be sure, but we think they?re even more valuable for the insights that they yield to careful observers. In his influential anti-comics opus Seduction of the Innocent, Dr. Fredric Wertham claimed to detect hidden content embedded in these lurid pamphlets: ?In ordinary comic books, there are pictures within pictures for children who know how to look.? Granted that Wertham was a bit of a plonker, but we?re not unsympathetic to this particular claim of his ? indeed, we believe that a hidden psychosexual portrait of midcentury America is buried in the pulpy pages of old horror comics, and we?ve made it our business to try and bring this shadowy portrait to light, one pre-Code mag at a time. We hope that you?ll find our efforts diverting.
Sale highlights include a complete run of Stanley Morse?s WEIRD MYSTERIES, including another copy of #5, a gruesome classic that?s become PBA?s pre-Code calling card (we?ve offered copies in three of our four previous outings); a near-complete run of MYSTERIOUS ADVENTURES and its sister title FIGHT AGAINST CRIME, including a 6.5 copy of FAC #20 (infamous severed head cover); Avon?s EERIE #1, the first true horror comic; a rare and possibly unique misprint copy of DARK MYSTERIES #19, with the inside covers not only printed upside-down, but with another company?s name in the indicia; a Yankee version of CHAMBER OF CHILLS #23, featuring one of th
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0073: The DEAD WHO WALK Avon One-Shot * CGC 5.0 * Sex and Death ScenariosEst. US$800-US$1,200
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0074: JOHNNY DYNAMITE: Lot of 7 Mags * Don HECK * 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 * Morphine StoryEst. US$200-US$300
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0075: EERIE ADVENTURES #1 * CGC 7.0 * Sinner Takes All * SEDUCTION OF THE INNOCENTEst. US$600-US$900
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0076: EERIE COMICS #1 * CGC 1.5 Purple Label * 1st True HORROR Comic * Pre-Code CLASSICEst. US$800-US$1,200
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0077: EXCITING WAR #6 * 3.5 * Flamethrower Cover * Battlefield BarbarityEst. US$200-US$300
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0078: FANTASTIC WORLDS #7 * 6.0 * Space Pirates and Asteroid GodsEst. US$150-US$250
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0081: FIGHT AGAINST CRIME #4 * 4.0 * Hopped-Up KILLERS * Reefer MADNESSEst. US$300-US$500
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0082: FIGHT AGAINST CRIME #6 * CGC 7.5 * Cop Killer Gets Helping HandEst. US$1,500-US$2,500
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0085: FIGHT AGAINST CRIME #9 * 3.5 * CRIMES of SUSPENSE from the TOMB of HORROREst. US$100-US$150
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0087: FIGHT AGAINST CRIME #11 * 4.0 * Magician Cuts Woman in HalfEst. US$200-US$300
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0088: FIGHT AGAINST CRIME #12 * 3.0 * MORPHINE Story * "The Big DOPE"Est. US$100-US$150
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0089: FIGHT AGAINST CRIME #13 * 4.0 * Cuckold's REVENGE * Hemingway HORROREst. US$150-US$250
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0090: FIGHT AGAINST CRIME #14 * 3.0 * Electric Chair Cover * EC SimilarityEst. US$200-US$300
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0091: FIGHT AGINST CRIME #15 * 4.5 * Porno Blackmail * Parade of PLEASUREEst. US$200-US$300
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0092: FIGHT AGAINST CRIME #16 * 4.0 * "Foul Play" EC Swipe * Piranha Tale Baits KrigsteinEst. US$200-US$300
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0093: FIGHT AGAINST CRIME #17 * 2.5 * "CARRION DEATH" Swipe * Wildey Cops CRANDALLEst. US$100-US$150
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0095: FIGHT AGAINST CRIME #19 * 3.5 * SAVAGE Combo of CRAIG CapersEst. US$150-US$250
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0096: FIGHT AGAINST CRIME #20 * CGC 6.0 * Crazy SEVERED HEAD CoverEst. US$10,000-US$15,000
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